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    1:33 Demonization on the right and the left

    6:23 Is Trump’s election the nail in the coffin for DEI?

    13:50 John: It’s no use pretending that racism in America is as bad as it was 50 years ago

    16:33 Ground News ad

    18:36 Has Elon Musk “encouraged” or “permitted” more racism on X?

    19:30 John: It’s a tragedy that Jordan Neely died, but he needed to be restrained

    30:12 If Daniel Penny had been a cop

    34:05 ACTA ad

    36:18 The glorification of Luigi Mangione

    47:06 Cheering for the villain

    55:43 Will New York remain a sanctuary city?

    Recorded December 13, 2024

    Links and Readings

    John’s NYT column, “How to Dangerously Misread a Very Important Verdict”

    Briahna Joy Gray and Nathan Robinson on Luigi Mangione



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    Right after I taped this week’s episode with John McWhorter, I got on a call with my creative director Nikita Petrov, expecting some follow ups.

    We talked about Syria, the world’s reaction to Trump’s victory, P. Diddy’s parties, the reasons the labor movement never got the same kind of momentum in the US as it did in Western Europe, and more. But we started by connecting two topics from my conversation with John: the surprisingly cheerful reactions to a killing of an insurance firm CEO in New York, and the seeming demise of DEI as a movement.

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    Mike Spooner wants to know how I came around to supporting Trump

    Substack Reader wants to know if Trump’s reelection signals that we’re entering an era where “reason and common sense once again prevail.”

    Michoel Stern senses that I’m becoming more isolationist, and that I don’t want America to be the world’s policeman. So what is the alternative?

    Robert Odear asks if there is “an accepted metric for linguistic complexity,” and if there is one, whether linguistically complex societies also tend to be advanced societies.

    Nancy wants to know if the triumph over “wokeness” represented by Trump’s election is being felt on campus.

    Jonathan E. Burack wants to know why I haven’t responded to this review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.

    Pete Bradshaw asks what we think of the use of political slurs like “fascist,” “Hitler,” and “commie.”

    Cara C. suggests that, while it was wrong for Democrats to use lawfare against Trump, it is acceptable for Republicans to use it against Democrats, if only to teach them a lesson.

    Recorded December 1, 2024



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    0:00 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John

    0:45 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John

    6:50 Glenn the patriarch

    10:35 John Lewis’s legacy

    15:48 Ground News ad

    17:49 From John Lewis to Stokely Carmichael to Jesse Jackson to BLM

    25:21 To isolate or to integrate?

    27:41 What black activism could have been

    32:02 John: The Black Panthers accomplished nothing

    40:04 ACTA ad

    42:18 James Baldwin’s “nutty” late work

    44:45 James Q. Wilson’s prescient attitude toward Glenn’s leftward shift

    52:43 The “conservative” absence at the National Museum of African American History

    55:11 John’s investigation of contemporary Yiddish speakers

    Recorded December 1, 2024

    Links and Readings

    David Greenberg’s book, John Lewis: A Life

    Barbara Fields and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton’s book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

    Trailer for Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro

    James Baldwin’s book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values

    John DiIulio Jr.’s review of Late Admissions in the Claremont Review of Books

    John’s NYT column, “Yiddish is a Supposedly Dying Language That’s Thrillingly Alive”



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    In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about the holiday blues, the contradictions of racial heterodoxy and racial self-identification, and learning from Yiddish-speakers.

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    0:47 The Jabbari Lincoln Files, Yaya’s audio spy thriller

    5:40 Is Jabbari Lincoln a fictional surrogate for Yaya?

    10:05 How Yaya joined the CIA

    16:18 What does a CIA analyst do, anyway?

    20:42 The lessons of the WMDs debacle

    23:08 A Muslim convert at the Agency

    28:40 How the 2005 London Underground bombings got Yaya interested in counterterrorism

    30:28 Terrorist recruitment and the search for self

    35:57 Why Yaya doesn’t use the term “Islamophobia”

    38:52 Yaya: Not even freedom fighters have license to kill with impunity

    45:06 What would Malcolm X think about African American support of Palestinians?

    52:22 Working for the CIA in the post-COINTELPRO era

    Recorded November 9, 2024

    Links and Readings

    1776 Unites

    The Jabarri Lincoln Files

    Sam Greenlee’s novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film adaptation of The Spook Who Say by the Door

    Yaya’s essay for the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Hamas Are Not Muslim Freedom Fighters”

    December 2, 1963 NYT article on Malcolm X’s “Chickens coming home to roost” comment

    Yaya’s other podcast, Designated



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    In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about my conversation with Yaya Fanusie, the sub rosa activities of the CIA, the US's authorization of ATACMS strikes in Russian territory, and more.

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    0:43 John reconciles himself to Trump’s win

    4:06 Glenn: Wake up! It’s time to take Trump seriously!

    12:16 Why Glenn feels a sense of excitement about the present moment

    14:54 Ground News Ad

    16:40 Is Glenn’s attitude all about contrarianism?

    21:00 Does John hope that Trump’s administration fails?

    26:08 ACTA ad

    28:22 John’s trip to Dublin with Richard Dawkins

    36:44 John’s questions for Dawkins

    41:51 What Dawkins might think about race, culture, and IQ

    Recorded November 18, 2024

    Links and Readings

    John’s NYT piece, “What if I’m the ‘Friend’ Donald Trump Referred To?”

    John’s Atlantic piece, “Trump’s Unmonitored Speech”

    Max Boot’s book, Reagan: His Life and Legend

    Richard Dawkins’s latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

    Dawkins’s book, The Selfish Gene

    Dawkins’s book, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

    Dawkins’s book, The God Delusion

    Dawkins’s book, The Ancestors’ Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life



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    In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about my conversation with John McWhorter, my elation over Trump's victory, and why I wasn't forthcoming about my preference for him over Harris.

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    1:21 Have Glenn’s intellectual shifts been misread?

    5:45 Danny: Francis Fukuyama was right

    10:30 Capitalism won. Is that a good thing?

    14:18 The climate under capitalism

    20:24 Danny: “People said 'f**k you' to the Democratic Party”

    23:51 Why the “Trump is a fascist” argument makes no sense

    27:53 Whither the working class coalition?

    33:10 How the US foreign policy establishment won the argument and lost Ukraine

    36:28 Danny: There is no way the US can maintain influence in East Asia

    38:26 Does Jewish survival require a Jewish state?

    43:50 The limits of social science

    49:36 The media’s obsession with polling

    53:55 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?52:34 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?

    Recorded November 9, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Dann’s podcast, American Prestige

    Danny’s conversations with Glenn about his intellectual history, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4

    Francis Fukuyama’s Financial Times piece, “What Trump Unleashed Means for America”

    Danny’s Nation essay, “The Liberal Discontents of Francis Fukuyama”

    Adam Tooze’s podcast, Ones & Tooze

    Danny’s Harper’s essay, “The Life and Death of Hollywood”

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s manifesto, The Communist Manifesto

    Danny’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque”

    Danny’s Boston Review piece, “Mass Destruction”

    Glenn’s recent conversation with Rajiv Sethi

    JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civilization: Freud, Marx, LĂ©vi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

    Yuri Slezkine’s book, The Jewish Century



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    In this post-show conversation with my creative director Nikita Petrov, I review this week's episode with historian Daniel Bessner. We also talk about Trump's policy proposals, capitalism, Russia and Ukraine, NATO, and why I sometimes pull back from speaking my mind.

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    In this month's Substack subscriber-only Q&A session, we talk about Donald Trump's "Nazi rally" at Madison Square Garden, Martha Raddatz's comments about Venezuelan gangs in Colorado, Glenn's retirement, John's comments about Trump and Vance, my comments about Israel and Palestine, and, of course, Trump's victory.

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    This is the Post-Show episode following this week's conversation with John McWhorter. In it, Glenn sits down with his editor Mark Sussman and his creative director Nikita Petrov to talk about the election, why he understands where Trump's supporters are coming from, the meaning of voting, and the possibility that Trump might release sealed documents relating to the JFK assassination.

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    [Note: In the episode, John mistakenly referred to the author of a biography of Ronald Reagan as George Will. He meant to reference Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy.]

    1:39 Pre-election jitters

    3:23 Will Democrats contest the election if it goes Trump’s way?

    4:44 A crisis for democracy, maybe, but not the end of democracy

    10:02 John’s case against Trump’s proposed second administration

    15:36 Ground News ad

    17:28 The Obamas’ attempted intervention and post-presidential performance

    26:58 The mind of the informed Trump voter

    34:20 A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies)

    41:15 Is Trump losing it or just tired of campaigning?

    44:25 The Washington Post and the LA Times decline to endorse

    47:48 Glenn and John’s election night plans

    50:48 The nightmare scenario

    Recorded November 3, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Shelby Steele’s book, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win

    Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

    John’s NYT column, “Donald Trump Is Bored”

    Max Boot’s book, Reagan: His Life and Legacy

    Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Series DVD box set

    Douglas Murray’s Free Press piece, “Things Worth Remembering: Whoever Loses, They Should Lose Like Nixon”



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    0:00 Rajiv’s report from the FIRE conference

    3:11 Roland Fryer’s keynote address

    13:26 Ta-Nehisi Coates’s humanist universalism

    17:25 “Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus”

    18:50 Rajiv’s reading of Coates’s stand on “apartheid”

    31:55 The gap between election forecasting models and prediction markets

    36:52 The limits of models and markets

    39:59 Rajiv: The markets show us a balance between narratives about the election

    44:17 Is one crypto trader manipulating the prediction markets in favor of Trump?

    53:12 Rajiv: Prediction markets may have sent early signals about January 6

    55:19 Rajiv’s family history with Kamala Harris

    57:45 The new prominence of Indian Americans in politics

    1:03:07 The axiom of antiessentialism

    Recorded October 27, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

    Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

    Lara Bazelon’s 2022 Atlantic essay, “The ACLU Has Lost Its Way”

    Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Bazelon

    Glenn’s 2023 conversation with Erec Smith

    Eugene Volokh on the Hamline University-Prophet Muhammad painting controversy

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

    Coates’s 2010 Atlantic essay, “The Ghost of Bobby Lee”

    Ralph Wiley’s book, Dark Witness: When Black People Should Be Sacrificed (Again)

    Last week’s TGS debate about The Messsage

    Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study

    Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

    Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

    Polymarket

    Recorded October 27, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

    Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

    Lara Bazelon’s 2022 Atlantic essay, “The ACLU Has Lost Its Way”

    Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Bazelon

    Glenn’s 2023 conversation with Erec Smith

    Eugene Volokh on the Hamline University-Prophet Muhammad painting controversy

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

    Coates’s 2010 Atlantic essay, “The Ghost of Bobby Lee”

    Ralph Wiley’s book, Dark Witness: When Black People Should Be Sacrificed (Again)

    Last week’s TGS debate about The Messsage

    Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study

    Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

    Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

    Polymarket



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    1:22 The Coates debate continues

    3:18 John: Coates is a beautiful writer, but 


    5:44 John: 
 The Message is suffused with incuriosity and simplistic thinking

    13:45 Glenn: Coates is talking about humanism and power, not race

    18:11 Ground News ad

    20:25 Is it “all about whitey”?

    22:11 Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote this book. What am I doing?

    27:40 What kind of historical imagination is at work in The Message?

    34:11 Moral clarity or abdication of responsibility?

    36:30 Pro-Palestinian writers John considers acceptable

    41:54 The next entries in Glenn and John’s book club

    42:04 Coates’s now notorious interview on CBS Mornings

    48:45 What is the black intellectual’s role today?

    52:16 The counterexample of South Africa

    Recorded October 19, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

    Glenn and John’s previous conversation

    John’s NYT column, “Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Myth of Black Fragility”

    Michael Chabon’s novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

    Jeffrey Sachs on YouTube

    Judge Andrew Napolitano on YouTube

    Trevor Noah’s conversation with Coates

    Ezra Klein’s conversation with Coates

    Peter Beinart’s conversation with Coates

    David Greenberg’s new book, John Lewis: A Life

    Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

    James Baldwin’s essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind”



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    1:41 Penn’s sanctions against Amy

    7:47 What’s at stake in the charges against Amy?

    14:03 The trouble with “hate speech”

    17:48 Should we abolish the nation-state?

    21:38 The debates that can’t happen in the university

    26:44 Ethnonationalism and group differences

    33:11 Amy’s defense of maintaining an “Anglo-Protestant” American majority

    42:32 Amy’s concerns about Asian migration

    47:52 Are immigrants bringing lax attitudes toward property rights with them?

    52:52 Glenn: Immigrants impart dynamism to a culture that’s always been in flux

    1:01:13 Glenn and Amy talk about porn

    1:07:51 The absence of virtue in political discourse

    1:13:05 Amy’s next steps

    Recorded October 12, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Amy’s Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed, “Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois Culture”

    Glenn and Amy’s 2017 conversation, “The Downside to Social Uplift”

    Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, The Message

    William Vogelei’s Claremont Review of Books review of Robert Kagan’s Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart—Again

    Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

    Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson’s book, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    Daniel Di Martino’s recent appearance on The Glenn Show

    Irving Kristol’s 1971 essay, “Pornography, Obscenity, and the Case for Censorship”

    Glenn’s essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”



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  • 1:12 The Vance-Walz debate

    4:28 Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book is brilliant

    13:16 John and Coates’s ancient beef

    15:31 Coates’s “blistering” critique of Zionism

    18:22 Ground News ad

    20:39 Do you have to solve the problem of “apartheid” in order to criticize it?

    33:10 Glenn’s reappraisal of Coates (and John’s bemusement)

    34:53 ACTA ad 36:39 Will the race card play for Eric Adams?

    42:31 What has Eric Adams accomplished?

    43:57 Why John defends Amy Wax

    49:17 Glenn: Amy Wax gets to have her opinion

    Recorded October 5, 2024

    Links and Readings

    The Vance-Walz VP debate

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

    Coleman Hughes’s Free Press review of The Message

    Coates’s book, Between the World and Me

    Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”

    Glenn and John’s in-person TGS episode

    Andrew Yang’s Newsweek piece, “I Ran against Eric Adams. I Saw This Coming.”

    John’s NYT piece, “She Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.”

    Amy Wax’s December 2021 TGS appearance

    Wax’s August 2022 TGS appearance

    Wax’s March 2024 TGS appearance

    Richard Sander’s Stanford Law Review article, “A Systematic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools”



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    1:15 Why Daniel immigrated to the US

    5:14 What went wrong in Venezuela?

    8:45 Daniel: Both the Biden administration and global trends are to blame for the border crisis

    11:19 Trump promises to deport record numbers of illegal immigrants. But can he?

    13:00 What’s it take to fix immigration? Money.

    18:39 The flawed strategy of making immigration into Mexico’s problem

    20:48 The bad information and rumors fueling asylum-seekers

    23:18 Should residency visa programs prioritize the richest immigrants?

    32:13 The labor market consequences of immigration

    37:27 Daniel’s large-scale proposals for national immigration policy

    43:00 How many unauthorized immigrants are in US right now?

    45:23 The political realities of immigration reform44:08 The political realities of immigration reform

    Recorded September 23, 2025

    Links and Readings

    Daniel’s writing for City Journal

    Daniel’s report for the Manhattan Institute, “The Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants”



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    A couple weeks ago, I did my own solo Q&A session. Now John is back, and I decided to put him in the hot seat. Let’s get into it. Yan Shen asks our opinion of the contretemps between Nancy Mace and Michael Eric Dyson. Stan asks if we’ve seen Matt Walsh’s film, Am I Racist?. Eli, noting the rampant grade inflation at many institutions, asks if we have a way of fixing the problem and wants to know if our own grading standards have changed over the years (here’s the Yascha Mounk post she references). RAO wants to know what we think of alternative education, like home schooling, micro-schools, charter schools, and so on. Jerry Zuriff wants to know why John likes hip-hop. Given that, on average, American girls perform better than American boys in high school, Michael asks if colleges should give preferences to males over females. Or would that run afoul of SFFA v. Harvard? And finally, DG wants to know why John never got interested in sports.